Has She Won Or Is She Lying.?

[webbo3]

A woman has come forward to the shop where the news channels have been filming from in Worcester claiming to have the winning £33M lotto ticket, only problem is the FULL date is not visible, just the year, and the barcode is washed out as well, now the date is at the top of the ticket and the barcode is at the bottom, it just seems a little suspicious to me.


http://news.sky.com/story/1628246/womans-33m-lotto-ticket-damaged-in-wash


Dave.

[jackthehat]

Either is a possibility.
Hopefully, it'll all come out in the wash. :o)

[aelmpvw]

does seem suspicious that everything as been washed out except the lottery numbers ... could have bought a ticket with those numbers after the event and doctored the ticket ... sceptical so and so aren't i?

[jno]

you have to remove out barcodes and stuff otherwise someone will copy them

http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/stuff/pub-talk/2015/11/warning-do-not-post-your-winning-racing-ticket-on-facebook/

[Gavmacp]

I think you will find I have the ticket but coincidently it has been through the wash!

[douglas9401]

Goodness me, what a stroke of good luck.

I predict a charge of conspiracy to claim money by deception or somesuch.

[retrocop]

Money laundering?

[retrocop]

She is telling porkies. I am the second winner but am not claiming cos I want a roll over???

[Buenchico]

It sounds genuine to me.

It would be extremely unlikely to me that someone who happened to live in the same area that the winning ticket was sold would happen to have an old ticket where she'd chosen exactly the same six numbers (and could then simply remove the date, etc).

To forge such a ticket would probably take skills well beyond those of most people and, even if they could do so, they still wouldn't know exactly where the winning ticket had been sold (as Camelot only reveal the general area).

[THECORBYLOON]

The ticket shows no date so she could have chosen the numbers any time after the draw was made.

[Zacs-Master]

'they still wouldn't know exactly where the winning ticket had been sold' mmm.

[chrissa1]

Doesn't Camelot have a record of the shop's sold tickets? I know that it wouldn't prove the numbers that she picked but, wouldn't it have a time stamp on it?

[THECORBYLOON]

It's not clear to me whether Camelot telt the shopkeeper the press might 'phone him because he had selt the winning ticket or because the woman said it was bought there and telt the press that.

[THECORBYLOON]

If it were put to me, without knowing everything Camelot knows, I would say it is "inherently improbable" that the numbers and year are visible yet the barcode and the rest of the date are not.

[Togo]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1470283.html

sandy asked the same earlier chaps. The cheat theory is even in here.

[Peter Pedant]

Has she won or as has someone else ?

there is quite a lot of detail we are not party to
like they know which shop the ticket was bought at - they do we are just told

and considering it is all computerised the time that the winning number was entered should be on the central processor and can be matched with the CCTV

as for fraudulent claims - 9/11 looms large in people memories for a variety of thing including fraudulent charities and of course people claiming for non existent relatives caught in the building. The fraudulent charity fella when he was arrested said: this is the stupidest thing I have ever done ......

[THECORBYLOON]

When I said "inherently improbable" I do not doubt some of the details are missing but I do doubt that the wash affected only the barcode and some parts of the date.

[Svejk]

Quite a few shopkeepers have been caught claiming customers' winnings. (and they had the winning tickets)
Of course, we don't know how many, if any, got away with it.

[vetuste_ennemi]

The physical system is a network of machines which sell and allocate the lottery numbers. The software system records these data on a central hub. Irrespective of dog ate my homework factors Camelot will know which specific shop sold the unredeemed ticket.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Unless, of course, Camelot use the same software "engineers" as the average local (and national, for that matter) government.

[vetuste_ennemi]

What do you think, SP?